About the Quartier Surname

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Cartier surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Family name meaning

If your family name is Quartier, its origin lies with Cartier, a French surname. In origin, the name means “Carter, carrier of goods”.

Spelled with “qu” instead of “c”, Quartier shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Carthew. From 1891 to 2000, 740 births in France were registered under Quartier. The name became more frequent over the century.

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